TV tuner software

Guv · 3 May 2008 at 18:45

I've just got a Pinnacle tv card and the software is rubbish, it's too slow.

What alternatives are there?

I'd like to use the nebula software but they want £30 to use a tuner that isn't made by them.

EYEREX · 3 May 2008 at 19:12

have you tried chris tv only problem it's not free ever http://www.chris-tv.com/

Guv · 3 May 2008 at 19:13

EYEREX said:
have you tried chris tv only problem it's not free ever http://www.chris-tv.com/

Not tried it yet, I'll give it a go

thanks

Guv · 3 May 2008 at 19:20

chris tv doesn't even find my card

jbloggs · 3 May 2008 at 20:22

Mediaportal

GB-PVR

possibly...

Sinopa · 4 May 2008 at 14:57

Guv said:
chris tv doesn't even find my card

Looks to me like ChrisTV is for analog cards. I'm guessing your Pinnacle is digital.

Guv · 4 May 2008 at 15:01

Yep mine is digital, dual tuner.

I've tried all the ones mentioned here and a couple of others and can't find anything decent.

The nebula software is by far the best and I had almost decided to pay the £30 so I can use it with the Pinnacle card but after a quick test (they give you a free 2 min test) it won't pick up all the channels whereas the pinnacle software does.

With my nebula card the nebula digitv picks up every channel fine!

MadMatty · 4 May 2008 at 15:16

Blaze DTV is pretty good with my compro t200 card. Not as fast at channel searching, but it supports hardware deinterlacing (avivo/purevideo) so looks a lot better then the stock compro software output.

nerovision looks nice too (hardware deinterlacing) , but isnt very compatable with the card. I quite like vista mediacentre with powerdvd decoder (again hardware deinterlacing with avivo) but hard to navigate without compataible remote.